England captain Stuart Broad insisted it was not all 'doom and gloom', despite seeing his side twice throw away strong positions to lose their opening one-day international against the West Indies, claiming they were 'fantastic' for most of the game.

The West Indies ran out winners by 15 runs in the end after limiting England to 254 for six in pursuit of a victory target of 270 in Antigua, but the tourists looked like they well were on top both when bowling and batting.

However, both times the West Indies turned things around to win the opener of the three-game series.

With the bat the hosts recovered from 44 for four to post 269 for six, thanks largely to a blistering 116 stand in just 10.1 overs between Dwayne Bravo and Darren Sammy for the sixth wicket.

England still looked well on course to reach that target, though, as they progressed to 180 for two in the 37th over on the back of debutant Michael Lumb's 106 at the top of the order, but yet again they failed to finish the job off.

Broad refused to be too critical of his side, saying on Sky Sports 2: 'You look at both innings and we were brilliant for 40 overs in each and then struggled a little bit, so it's not doom and gloom.

'We've obviously lost this game, but we did a lot of good things. Lumby's hundred on debut was a huge achievement for him. It was a fantastic knock.'

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Broad also insisted it was the bowling and not the batting that was key to their defeat.

'I think we conceded 100 off the last seven overs, for which a lot of credit has to go to the West Indies batmen, and we also have to look at ourselves and know that we need to get better there,' he said.

'I wouldn't look too much at the batting, I think it was the last 10 overs with the ball that really hurt us.

'There's things we have to get better at, but you have to lose games to learn from to make sure you win the high-pressure ones, and we need to learn quickly.'

Windies skipper Dwayne Bravo, who top-scored for the hosts with an unbeaten 87 and also shared in a vital 108-run stand for the fifth wicket with Lendl Simmons (65), was understandably delighted with his side's display.

He said: 'It was a great team effort, we didn't get the start we wanted with the bat but the partnership between myself and Simmons really laid the foundation that allowed Sammy to come in and play his natural game.

'As long as we show that character, that fighting spirit, we can't fault the guys. Anything over 250 we back our bowling group to defend that any time, so congrats to everybody.'